It’s the election “they” say no one wants, the media insist every-day no one is wanting a rerun of Biden and Trump, no one wants 2020 again, but yet the people still vote for them – Trump and Biden in each of the Primaries, one after the next after the next, impervious to the entreaties of their betters, and the anger and frustration of the political elites is palpable. They tried to block Trump standing because they claimed, he was an insurrectionist (despite never having being charged with insurrection far less being convicted) so Trump has appealed to the Supreme Court who have rightly stated that States can decide on those who stand in the state, but should keep their noses out of federal matters, not least perhaps for fear of tit for tat attacks. They also tried to sue him into obedience, but still he persists. Biden in turn, is more and more obviously decrepit but remains deaf to entreaties to stand down for someone – anyone else to have a go. He stumbles about looking vaguer and vaguer, but the opium of power is too strong a hold to relinquish, he didn’t struggle for fifty years to give this up now.
Given the feelings of panic in the political elites – (for panic is what it looks like) – for the peasants to vote for one of the correct choices, what might we see next?
Might it be apposite to question if that dark shade of America’s showman politics “The Lone Gunman” might be about to appear from out of the wings, to strut and stride his moment once again onto the centre of the stage? Is America’s political bogyman due a return?
America is a violent society, and always has been, America’s politics have also always been violent. America has a long history of addressing politics with violence. These are febrile times and for some the stakes may be becoming high enough.
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